CFUG Meeting moved to May 23

Howdy, due to Mike D’s knee injury, the CFUG meeting is being moved to May 23. @ Brown-Heatly at 1 pm. Going to show some Adobe CS 6 goodies and Todd will be sharing info from some his recent conferences.

Special Adobe Event in June!

An Evening with Mike & Lee on the Future of Flash

St Edwards University (Maebe Ballroom, 3001 S Congress Ave).

Join us for an evening with Mike Chambers & Lee Brimlow from Adobe. This will be a good opportunity to speak directly with Adobe, ask questions, and discuss recent changes around the Flash Player.

The Future of Flash – Mike Chambers
In this session, Mike will lead a discussion around recent changes and announcements around the Flash Platform. He will then spend some time laying out the roadmap for the Flash Player, and discuss the direction in which the player will evolve, including the general focus of the player and the ActionScript language and AVM (ActionScript Virtual Machine). In addition to discussing the Flash roadmap, we will be showing off the latest Flash and Adobe AIR content, give some sneak peeks on upcoming releases, and setting aside plenty of time for open discussions and Q&A.

Adobe Gaming Technology – Lee Brimlow
In this session Gaming Evangelist Lee Brimelow will reveal the latest technologies being worked on by Adobe for game developers. They will show how these technologies allow developers to create casual 2D games in addition to AAA 3D games. Current best practices will also be discussed.

Mike Chambers has spent the last decade building applications that target the web and the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript and HTML5. He is currently the Directory of Developer Advocacy for web platforms at Adobe. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide,Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified.

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/

Lee Brimelow is a developer evangelist at Adobe who is currently focusing on Flash gaming. He has worked in the past for companies like AOL, Netscape, frog design, and eBay. Lee runs the highly popular video tutorial site at gotoandlearn.com and writes a blog dedicated to Flash at theflashblog.com.

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CFUG Meeting May 9th

Austin CFUG meeting will be held May 9, at the Brown-Heatly Building, 4900 North Lamar from 1-3 PM. Topic and speaker TBA…

CFUG Meeting moved to February 15

Due to scheduling snafus, we are going to reschedule the CFUG meeting for Feb 15. We will be having “API Rodeo”, show or tell about your favorite CF API’s and mashups. There will be pizza and beverages.

Meeting with be at 4900 North Lamar (Brown Heatly Building), from 1-3 PM. Check in with security desk for room assignment.

CFUG Meeting Jan 11, 2012

Austin CFUG meeting, Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012 @ Brown-Heatly Building, 4900 North Lamar, Austin. Speaker and Topic: TBA

Thanks to Hal Helms

A big thank you to Hal Helms for the presentation and mention on his blog… http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/7/29/A-ColdFusion-Developer-Examines-Ruby-on-Rails-A-Night-in-Austin#more

CFUG/Flex Meetup, Wednesday, June 15

The Austin ColdFusion and Flex user groups are going to have a joint meetup at the Gingerman on June 15th at 7 pm. Come out, have a cold beverage and discuss all things CF and Flex.

The Gingerman is located at 301 Lavaca St.

CF Objective Presentation Archive

http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2011/5/19/cfobjective.presentations

Austin CFUG Meeting April 13th

Austin CFUG meeting April 13th, 1-3 pm at the Brown Heatly Building (4900 North Lamar).

Corey Butler will be covering recent work on the CFAmazon project. CFAmazon is an open source ColdFusion library designed to help integrate Amazon payment services into CF-based systems. The project supports Checkout By Amazon and the more recent addtion of Marketplace Web Services. The presentation will cover the basics of getting Amazon payments working with your site as well as how to quickly overcome some of the hurdles that have faced CF developers using Amazon services.
Read more here.

The slides have been posted at http://www.slideshare.net/goldglovecb/cfamazon-7608436 and the blog entries are available at http://www.coreybutler.com.

CFAmazon: MWS Support

An update to CFAmazon was just released on RIAForge and GitHub. The open source library was originally designed to help CF developers integrate Checkout By Amazon into their websites. The most recent update supports Marketplace Web Services (aka MWS), focusing on feed submission, reports, and scheduling. MWS is powerful and fairly in-depth, so feedback would be appreciated. Knowing how developers are using it (or want to use it) will only make the library better!